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This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
Abstract
Introduction
According to the 2012 Lao Social Indicator Survey, 6 % of children in Laos live with neither one of their parents. This study explores the determinants of child-parent separation and the consequences of existing alternative care arrangements from the perspectives of adults and young people.
Method
Interviews with community leaders, government authorities, and senior staff from residential institutions (n = 26) and group discussions with adult caregivers (n = 192) and children (n = 294) living in…
This booklet is based on a recent internal desk review of Save the Children’s and partners’ work against physical and humiliating punishment of children, commissioned by Save the Children Sweden. It aims to present best practices, to show what methods have worked around the world, and to spread knowledge about results achieved and lessons learned when it comes to law reform and positive discipline. The booklet states first and foremost that children have the absolute right to be safe from violence as stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Violence does not have a…
Kinnected is a program run in 10 countries by the organization ACCI Relief aimed at preserving and strengthening families and assisting children currently in residential care to achieve their right to be raised in a family.
This document provides an overview of the issues related to residential care, and the detrimental impacts of institutionalization on children. The document presents steps to deinstitutionalization and best practices for child protection, family preservation, and family reunification.
The document highlights the need for ethical volunteering which does not…
Cambodia's Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) conducted a mapping exercise to address a lack of information on the number of residential facilities providing care for children. The only information available to date was based on inspections conducted by the Ministry. This was limited to the residential care institutions that were officially known to or which had a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry. The assumption was that there were many more residential care institutions in Cambodia and a mapping exercise would be an effective way to identify…
This year’s report on Global Slavery makes reference to orphanage tourism in the context of Cambodia. The chapter on Cambodia begins on page 100 and highlights the exploitative nature of forced begging and orphanage tourism. These sections feature research from Friends International and UNICEF on the number of Cambodian children forced to beg in Cambodia and the surrounding region, the dramatic increase in the number of “orphanages” between 2005 and 2010, and the exploitation of children in the use of orphanages as tourist attractions, among other issues.
This document contains the result of a survey taken in December 2014 of children’s homes located in Sangkhlaburi, Thailand. This survey contains demographic information on children located in children homes within the region. Information includes, where the children come from, ethnicity, birthplace, religion, previous caregiver information, education, language ability, school location, health, numbers for children born in and outside of Thailand, with and without evidence of birthplace.
Confronted with the question of why so many Cambodian children live in orphanages, government officials point to a startling fact. Many of these children are not orphans, at least in the traditional sense. Their parents place them in residential care, often for better educational opportunities. Other Cambodian youth are living on the street or in informal dwellings, sometimes away from family. But an accurate estimate of how many young people are living in these vulnerable situations is unknown.
A new video describes a Mailman School-led study to assess the size of the problem.…
Abstract
The negative impact of childhood maltreatment, which can often extend well into adulthood, consistently appears to be ameliorated if victimized children possess several resiliencies or strengths. However, little is known about how vulnerable children's outcomes are affected by different levels of strengths across different out-of-home placement settings. Hence, this study examined the association of two factors — children's strengths and placement type, with outcomes at two time-points during out-of-home care. The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool was used to…
This short video by ChildSafe in Cambodia explains how donations to orphanages, rather than helping the situation, often cause the creation of more orphans. It is estimated that about 80% of the 8 million children living in institutions around the world are not actually orphans. Donations to orphanages only fuel the orphanage industry further, so the focus should instead be on supporting families.